221 - Craft weekend

So this weekend, I decided I was going to craft quite a lot. Saturday went well on the craft front, but today wasn't very fun.

Yesterday I finished my last Christmas card, which was Donald's.

It's a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 card, and I got the pattern from the blog iotacons. It took me hardly any time at, but I think it looks awesome.

I also finally got around to knitting my first project from my Stitch n Bitch book, the go-go garter stitch scarf. It involved three balls of wool, which was a little scary at first, but four chick movies later it was finished. Boom!

There are some bits that are a little messy, but considering this was the second things I've ever knitted, I'm very happy. I'm currently trying to master the purl stitch.

Today went a bit wrong because I decided to make my Christmas cake. I've already had one cake fail because I haven't had time to make my cake skirt, which made me very upset. I managed to make the cake fine, but our lovely fan assisted oven decided to do a lovely burnt on the outside, raw in the middle job on the cake. Bah! It tasted nice in the middle, but now that it's cooled it's gone a lot harder than it should be. I decided to decorate it so I could take some photos, but I'm very upset with how it looks (so upset I cried...I'm awesome).

I set up some of my pretty decorations on it, and put it on my nice cake board, but nothing made it look better. Donald assures me it tastes lovely, but I wanted it too look amazing too. If only I could have iced it, I could have hidden the scary-ness. My plan for next year (yes already) is to make a nice normal fruit cake for me (with icing and marzipan) and make either a gingerbread house or gingerbread cookies for Donald (as he doesn't like normal Christmas cakes but he likes gingerbread).

So my poor old school Christmas decorations I've had for like 3 years still haven't had a proper outing. Sniff.